France has one of the world's most generous pension systems with the average pensioner receiving the equivalent of about $1,900 a month. Five prime ministers in just two years have been ousted or ...

Rising numbers of older people across the continent are straining budgets and making for some difficult political decisions ...

Prime Minister François Bayrou shocked France when he said in January that the country's pension scheme was haemorrhaging billions. As part of his government policy statement, in which he outlined his ...

PARIS (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron braved strikes and street protests to force through a deeply unpopular reform in 2023 raising France's retirement age by two years to 64, saying it was the ...

A new survey finds that state pensions are considered too low, but there is no consensus among Europeans for overhauling them. View on euronews ...

PARIS, April 10 (Reuters) - France cannot afford not to reform its pension system and it should look at how to get people working for longer and make changes to how pensions are indexed to inflation, ...